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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2001
Jakob Nielsen, Atherton, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
When retrieving documents over a network, such as the Internet, the font size imposed by default or by a style sheet is sometimes not the right size for comfortable viewing by a user. A database of font size changes made by a user to particular documents is maintained and used to infer a font size preference for a document. A document is displayed using a recorded preference. If no preference is found for a document, a check is made to determine if a preference has been specified for a different document related to that document by having a common portion of a network address. That is, if a preference had been specified for one chapter of a document having a particular network address, a preference would be inferred for other chapters of the document based on a common portion of a hierarchical address.